Bipp
Bipp is a former rule in Switzerland.
history
The name "Bipp" was first mentioned in a Burgundian royal document in the 10th century . The Moutier-Grandval monastery laid its hand on the church of Bipp, (today's Oberbipp): “9. March 968, Betwa, Pippa burgoni capella una ”. This document office also proves the existence of Bipp Castle. About the Bishop of Basel around 1000, Bipp later fell to the Counts of Frohburg together with the Buchsgau around 1090 . We owe the second building of the church to them, an early Romanesque pillar basilica , which replaced the Carolingian building shortly after 1100 . The Bipp lock is 1268 by Hartmann von Frohburg as castrum nostrum Bippo mentioned. On December 1st, 1332, out of necessity, the castle and the rulership passed from Count Johann von Frohburg to his uncle , Count Rudolf von Neuenburg-Nidau . In short succession, ownership changed on November 26, 1379 to Count Simon von Thierstein on January 11, 1405 to Count Egon von Kyburg and then to the House of Habsburg .
The Gugler , Burgdorf and Sempach Wars not only brought harm, crises and hardship to the common people, but also to the rulers. The nobility felt compelled to take out mortgages from some wealthy Basel citizens.
In the first half of the 14th century, for administrative reasons, the old rule of Bipp was divided into the offices of "Bipp" with Attiswil , Farnern , Oberbipp , Rumisberg and Wiedlisbach and "Erlinsburg" with Niederbipp , Waldkirchenfeld, Walliswil bei Niederbipp , Schwarzhäusern and Wolfisberg .
The wealthy cities of Bern and Solothurn were able to hold their own as the last pledges .
On April 2, 1413, a diary in Bern decided the ongoing disagreements: Bern and Solothurn had jointly to administer the dominions of Bipp (offices of Bipp and Erlinsburg) and Bechburg. The "fight", which was still going on in secret, was ended on April 29, 1463 by a federal arbitration tribunal; Bipp finally came to Bern and Bechburg to Solothurn.
Until 1798, the administration of the Bipper office was the responsibility of a bailiff from the noble Bernese city nobility, with terms of office of three to five years each. During the 335 year “Bernese Vogtzeiters” 64 different bailiffs administered Bipp. The decision about the Reformation from 1528 onwards was left to the discretion of the Bernese authorities, who opted for the new faith.
In 1798, when the French revolutionary troops arrived in Solothurn , the last bailiff, Christian Friedrich Zehnder, fled towards the Napf area . Before that, he had Berne informed that the “Bipper office” could no longer be held. This fact encouraged the citizens of Oberbipp, Rumisberg and Wolfisberg to plunder and destroy Bipp Castle so that it does not fall intact into the hands of the French.
In the subsequent Swiss reorganization, the Bippi bailiwick was merged with the bailiwick of Wangen to the south, under the name of the district of Wangen , with the simultaneous separation of the hamlets of Bannwil and Rufshäuser (today Schwarzhäusern ), both of which were merged into the district of Aarwangen .
On June 30, 1800, the Wiedlisbach landlord Mühlethaler bought the ruins from the estate of Bern. In 1805 Johann Jakob Kopp from Wiedlisbach, together with his brother-in-law Jakob Flückiger from Rohrbach, bought the rest of the castle ruins from the Wiedlisbach innkeeper. The once magnificent castle was exploited by both owners as a building material supplier and quarry.
In 1852, the Basel Council of States, lieutenant colonel and later mayor of Basel, Johann Jakob Stehlin-Hagenbach (the elder, 1803–1879) bought the castle estate. He built the present manor house in place of the old granary between 1852 and 1855 according to plans by Johann Jakob Stehlin (the younger). The castle estate is still owned by the descendants of Johann Jakob Stehlin-Hagenbach and opens the gates on special occasions.
literature
- J. Leuenberger: Chronicle of the office of Bipp . 1904.
- Community of Oberbipp (Ed.): 1000 years of Oberbipp . 1971 (village chronicle).
- Kirchgemeinde (ed.): Brochure accompanying the inauguration of the new organ . 1976.